The Tax Foundation ranked states by percent of income paid for state and local taxesTax Foundaion

If you think you pay a lot of state and local taxes already, just be glad you don't live in New York. That's one takeaway from a new state-by-state ranking by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C. group that bills itself as a non-partisan research think tank.

According to its latest publication, Oregon comes in a 16th in the nation for the percent of income that goes to state and local taxes -- 10 percent. New York tops the list at 12.8 percent.

Washington has a smaller tax burden at 9.3 percent, ranking it 28th in the nation. California comes in No. 4 at 11.2 percent. Presidential debate: The two candidates for U.S. president went at it last night over foreign policy. The Oregonian's senior political reporter Jeff Mapes watched it closely and will field questions in a "live chat" at noon today.

For-profit schools: Democrats hit Republican state Rep. Julie Parrish, of West Linn for directing dollars out of public schools and into private, for profit schools. PolitiFact Oregon's Janie Har weighs in on whether that's a valid charge.

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